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Vamp Creek

Vamp Creek
River
Vamp Creek showing damage from 2010 Kisseynew Lake Forest Fire.jpg
Vamp Creek outlet into Mistik Creek
Name origin: Named after song
Country Canada
Province Manitoba
Region Northern Region
Part of Nelson River drainage basin
Source Vamp Lake
 - elevation 342 m (1,122 ft)
 - coordinates 54°55′42″N 101°10′9″W / 54.92833°N 101.16917°W / 54.92833; -101.16917
Mouth Mistik Creek
 - elevation 315 m (1,033 ft)
 - coordinates 54°44′26″N 101°22′18″W / 54.74056°N 101.37167°W / 54.74056; -101.37167Coordinates: 54°44′26″N 101°22′18″W / 54.74056°N 101.37167°W / 54.74056; -101.37167
Length 23.4 km (15 mi)
Location of Vamp Creek in Manitoba.

Vamp Creek is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Bakers Narrows.

The remote creek flows through Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and trembling aspen. The shoreline is characterized by steeply sloping irregular rock ridges and poorly drained areas of muskeg.

Vamp Creek area is difficult to access and largely pristine. It is home to moose, black bear, lynx, wolf, and beaver. It is part of the range of the Naosap woodland caribou herd. Bird species include raven, common loon, spruce grouse, bald eagle and hawk owl. The creek is only accessible by canoe or snowmobile, but there is some trapping, and hunting activity.

Vamp Creek was named during a 1920 expedition of the Dominion Land Survey. The surveyors lost a gramophone record of the Byron Gay song The Vamp, published in 1919.


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